Ajahn Chah Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
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I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Love her? You're devoid of all feeling. You lack common decency. You know how to express yourself. You always have just the right words. There's just one thing you haven't the slightest clue about: life itself. You're a craven coward, but a genius at evasions and excuses.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.
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And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
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Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
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The more info I read, the more the Rock & Roll hall of fame seems anti-rock. Rock was not meant to be judged by panels of old people.
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It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
